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Trinity Record: Zhao Ming sues Chinese Leader
2002-11-16The Trinity College student newspaper, The Trinity Record reported in their latest edition that several Falun Gong practitioners worldwide have filed a lawsuit against the Chinese leader, Jiang Zemin. -
Baltic News Service: Latvian Falun Dafa Practitioners hold Protest in Front of China Consulate
2002-11-16"Falun Gong practitioners have been sent to prisons and labour camp for practicing the peaceful Falun Gong exercises there they have been tortured and even beaten to death." -
Copenhagen Post: Danish websites censored by Chinese authorities
2002-11-16"The Chinese government is incredibly paranoid about information exchange and anything else they can't directly control. Free information yields free thoughts, and they're certainly not interested in that..." - Lars Normann Jorgensen, Secretary General of Amnesty International in Denmark -
San Diego Union-Tribune: The persecution of the Falun Gong
2002-11-16"Practitioners are not just shocked with electric batons. They are raped with them. They are beaten to death, their organs harvested, and their disfigured bodies immediately cremated. They are left outdoors, hanging from trees, stripped and thrown out in the freezing cold, tied naked to an iron bed until their limbs atrophy and force-fed faeces." -
FDI: Survivor of Chinas Wanjia Labour Camp Lands in Canada Today After Emergency Rescue Effort
2002-11-14"Ms. Wangs case demonstrates just how far Jiangs persecution of Falun Gong extends around the world. It is truly a global campaign." -- Ms. Cindy Gu, Canadian Falun Dafa Information Centre Spokeswoman -
Redherring: Special Report: China - When Fools Rush In
2002-11-14Technology companies are dashing to China in search of salvation and sales. Many will return broken and beaten. -
Southern Weekend (China): International Criminal Court to begin Trying Cases on Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes against Humanity
2002-11-13This court has the right to try cases on genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, among others. However, it only holds the persons charged accountable and only exercises its judiciary power under the circumstances that the court of the country involved cannot try the case independently. -
National Review (New York): Open-Web Policy
2002-11-13"Today, the Internet is perhaps the most powerful pro-democracy broadcasting tool. But, just as Communist governments during the Cold War sought to keep uncensored news from their people by jamming Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, the government of China today retains strict control over the information Chinese citizens can access on the Internet." -
Associated Press: ANALYSIS: False face on China's Communist congress
2002-11-12"At least one foreign reporter has been detained by police. Overseas television broadcasters have had outgoing stories cut by censors. And the world has been denied any real glimpse into the inner workings of the weeklong meeting, expected to produce the next leaders of the world's most populous country." -
Red Herring Online Magazine: Up Against the Firewall
2002-11-12"Why are American corporations, which have labored hard to present positive global images, providing censorship and surveillance technologies to what many see as China's Big Brother Internet?" -
Politiken (Danish Newspaper): Let Falun Gong dance
2002-11-11"DISGRACEFUL. Nothing else can be said about the decision to exclude the Chinese meditation movement Falun Gongs prized dance performance from the festival Asian Comments that started yesterday in Copenhagen...the crux of the matter is that they have allowed considerations for a oppressive dictatorship to decide, who can perform in Copenhagen." -
AP: China partially blacks out CNN, BBC
2002-11-11Authorities blocked CNN file footage of an interview with dissident Fang Jue and a brief mention of Falun Gong, banned by the government in 1999 [...] during a feature about the search among Chinese for spiritual solace amid the country's mad rush for material wealth, said CNN's Beijing bureau chief, Jai FlorCruz. -
AP: Hong Kong lawyers call proposed subversion law throwback to 18th century
2002-11-11Many have questioned whether the law could be used against Falun Gong, the meditation [exercise] which is outlawed in mainland China [...], but frequently [appeal] in Hong Kong against Beijing's often deadly crackdown on its followers in the mainland. -
FDI: Fourth Family Member Gains Early Release During the Global "Rescue Our Family Members" Campaign
2002-11-10"Overseas pressure is crucial for improving Falun Gong practitioners' situation in China...We hope all governments step forward to help stop this persecution and urge Jiang's regime to release our family members and millions of other innocent Falun Gong practitioners from torture in China. There are so many without family ties overseas who are suffering brutal persecution." -
VOA: US Concerned About China's Internet Censorship
2002-11-09"The reason people do this is to prohibit the spread of knowledge and ideas and information, which is one of the greatest weapons against oppression and intolerance." [Carol Guthrie, spokeswoman for Democratic Senator Ron Wyden]